A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud at Kaliganj village under Ullapara upazila of the district on Sunday night.
The victim was identified as Dulali Khatun, 40, wife of Alauddin of the same village.
Tajul Huda, officer-in-charge of Ullapara police station said there was a family feud between Alauddin and his wife for long. On Sunday night both of them engaged in an altercation and at one stage Alauddin beat Dulai dead.
Later, Alauddin fled the scene after hanging Dulali’s body from a tree adjacent to his house to prove the incident as a suicide case.